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Why doesn't anyone talk about compensation? Does 10x engineer gets paid 10x as well? Or taking 1x compensation is another feature of the 10x engineer?



One way that I approached this was to start my own SaaS product business.

First, it's a good way to test whether you actually are as good and productive as you think you are, since you now have to build an entire software product all by yourself. The ratio of deadwood at your company is going to be either zero or one.

But the nice part is that when you have one person at your company, you get to keep all the profit for yourself. And there's no reason to work 40 hour weeks (assuming you really are mr rock star like you think) so you only need to bring in say $10k/month and work less than 200 hours per year (1/10 of 2080, remember) to see an hourly rate that's more than 10X your 9-5 contemporaries.

Sorted.


Let's have everyone come to agreement about if those "10x engineers" exist in the first place (and seen as a positive :-P).




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